How to Play Croquet: A Pocket Manual of Complete Instructions for All Players (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from How to Play Croquet: A Pocket Manual of Complete Instructions for All Players<br><br>It is not to be wondered at then this being the state of things that croquet upon its introduction to American Society should meet with so warm and universal a welcome. It came as an outdoor sport for ladies misses and even little children - for the rich and for the poor; the strong and the weak easily learned and always intensely interesting and attractive to all.<br><br>We shall endeavor in this New Manual to make all its points clear to every understanding so that persons of every age from the youngest to the oldest.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.